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elizabitch 's review for:
Girl in Pieces
by Kathleen Glasgow
This ALA Best of Best book is being challenged at my library for graphic imagery in regards to cutting & suicide and I'm on the committee to review it, wooo.
I listened to the audiobook, it's beautifully read and I usually dislike audiobooks. I think the audiobook bypasses other reviewer's issues with the writing format and I'll be looking to try other books Whalen has narrated. It's intense and I couldn't stop listening, I marathoned the crap out of it in two days but I feel exhausted from the heavy weight of it.
There A LOT here: cutting, rape, homelessness, abusive relationships, alcohol and drug abuse. It definitely felt it could have been aimed towards an adult audience but the teen audience will identify with and learn from a lot in it. I have young kids who cut, so I'd probably wait to recommend it to them until they're on the older end of the spectrum. It's not encouraging kids to cut in a way that 13 Reasons Why encourages suicide, but rather goes into the psychological need of some people to do it. The percentage of time spent actually cutting is very small compared to the rest of the content of the novel.
idk, really doubt we're going to ban or move this but we'll see.
I listened to the audiobook, it's beautifully read and I usually dislike audiobooks. I think the audiobook bypasses other reviewer's issues with the writing format and I'll be looking to try other books Whalen has narrated. It's intense and I couldn't stop listening, I marathoned the crap out of it in two days but I feel exhausted from the heavy weight of it.
There A LOT here: cutting, rape, homelessness, abusive relationships, alcohol and drug abuse. It definitely felt it could have been aimed towards an adult audience but the teen audience will identify with and learn from a lot in it. I have young kids who cut, so I'd probably wait to recommend it to them until they're on the older end of the spectrum. It's not encouraging kids to cut in a way that 13 Reasons Why encourages suicide, but rather goes into the psychological need of some people to do it. The percentage of time spent actually cutting is very small compared to the rest of the content of the novel.
idk, really doubt we're going to ban or move this but we'll see.